Study of the relationship between employment and City size in East Azerbaijan province

This article aims to investigate the relationship between employment and city size in East Azerbaijan province and the effect of this province cities population on employment sectors in 2006. The study area consists of urban places of East Azerbaijan province in 2006. The data were collected from census public population and housing in 2006. The method of the study is descriptive-analytical. Linear regression model was employed in order to calculate of the data. The results showed that there is a direct relationship between employment and province cities size. So that for every shift unit in independent variable or for thousand persons increase 0/003 or 3 and 149 persons will be added in employees of agricultural and service sectors respectively and 0/024 or 24 individuals will be added in undefined sector. In this relation، the number of added persons in industry sector is high because of increase in employee''s population in industry and investment sectors and attitude of people toward industry. This attitude is low in agricultural sector. The reason is agricultural sector nature and nonconformity with urban space.